UN, North Korean Officials Spar Over Human Rights Report

When a United Nations panel set out in early 2013 to put together a report into human rights in North Korea, Pyongyang refused to engage. Now the report is done and the country’s leaders are facing the threat of a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), North Korea is scrambling to make its voice heard wherever possible.

At the U.N. headquarters in New York Wednesday, the head of the now-disassembled U.N. panel known as the Commission of Inquiry (COI) was challenged directly by a North Korean diplomat at a meeting about the report.